Food Waste Index Report 2021

● Released by: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) 

● Purpose: The report aims to present the most comprehensive food waste data collection and analysis.

● According to the report, an estimated 17% (931 million tonnes) of total global food production was wasted in 2019.

Sustainable Development Goal(SDG) Target 12.3: 

● It aims to halve global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses, including postharvest losses, along supply chains, by 2030.

Food Systems Summit:

● It will be convened by the UN Secretary-General in 2021 as part of the Decade of Action to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. 

● The Summit will launch bold new actions to deliver progress on all 17 SDGs, each of which relies to some degree on healthier, more sustainable and equitable food systems

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